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access role

An access role controls user privileges in applications other than CA IdentityMinder.

add action

An add action occurs when a user is added as a member or administrator of a role. You define the add action when you create or modify the role.

admin policy

An admin policy defines admin rules, scope rules, and administrator privileges for a role. You can define several admin policies for a role. Each policy indicates that if an administrator meets the condition in the admin rule, that administrator has the scope and administrator privileges defined for the policy.

admin role

An admin role enables CA IdentityMinder administrators to manage objects, such as organizations, groups, users, roles, and tasks in a CA IdentityMinder environment.

admin rule

An admin rule defines who is an administrator of a role. You define an admin rule as part of an admin policy for the role.

administrative tools

Administrative tools allow you to configure and use CA IdentityMinder. The tools and samples include configuration files, scripts, utilities, and the jar files that you need to compile custom objects with CA IdentityMinder APIs and API samples. The Administrative tools are in your CA IdentityMinder installation directory.

administrator

An administrator is a CA IdentityMinder user who can use or assign admin roles. User is a general term for any CA IdentityMinder account, which may have admin roles, access roles, or both.

alias

An alias is a unique string that is added to the URL for access to a CA IdentityMinder environment. There are two types of aliases:

• protected alias—Added to the URL for accessing protected tasks in the User Console.

  For example, if the protected alias for an environment is employees, the URL for accessing that environment is:

  http://<myserver.mycompany.org>/iam/im/employees

  where <myserver.mycompany.org> is the fully qualified domain name of the server where CA IdentityMinder is installed.

• public alias—Added to the URL for accessing public tasks, such as self-registration and forgotten password tasks.

  For example, if the public alias is public, the URL for accessing a public task is:

  http://<myserver.mycompany.org>/iam/im/public/index.jsp?task.tag=<tasktag>

  where <tasktag> is the tag for the task to invoke.

  You specify the task tag when you create the task in the CA IdentityMinder User Console.

You specify a protected and public alias when you create a CA IdentityMinder environment in the CA IdentityMinder Management Console.

approval

An approval is an action that must be performed before CA IdentityMinder can complete certain tasks. In a simple approval example, a manager must approve a new title before CA IdentityMinder changes the title in a user's profile. In CA IdentityMinder, an approval is associated with a workflow approval task. In the workflow engine’s user interface, an approval is associated with a workflow activity.